Over the past few years, the increasing addition of video recording from within ‘standard’ DSLR cameras has seen a huge rise in photographers needing to learn all about audio capture for the first time. If this describes your journey then this guide is for you!

No, this is not a mic that explodes. Yet plenty of people have used them to capture the sound of some sort of explosion! Boom Mics, also known as Shotgun Mics or Rifle Mics, are those that are predominantly used on top of a pole to capture audio when videoing. [...]

There are many uses for a clip-on lavalier mic, whether to amplify a public speaker, to capture an interviewee to camera or even as a teleconferencing device. In broad terms, there are 4 aspects that will determine which type of mic to choose.

Well today the cat can come bounding out of the bag with the embago lifted on the launch of the new Rode VideoMic Pro shotgun mic. We’ve known about this for months now but been under strict instructions to keep it quiet until [...]

We get asked often about why the Sennheiser MKE400 is so much more than the Rode VideoMic for what is in essence the same type of mic. We believe that a picture tells a thousand words so have a look at this…